Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts
2008/6/6 Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>:
> You can select which page is opened, but you cannot edit more than one
> page at once.
That's going to be a problem 20 documents (10 pages each) a week
before the final exam!
> Here is an extremely quick-and-dirty, I-guarantee-for-nothing (!) bash
> script to remove embedded fonts. It takes only one argument, the name of
> the original PDF file, and it generates "...-NOFONTS.pdf". I only tested
> this on one PDF file that I happened to have lying around, so I have no
> idea how robust this is:
>
> #! /bin/bash
> TEMPPSFILE="${1%.pdf}-TEMP.ps"
> FONTS="$(echo $(pdffonts "$1" | awk 'NR>2{print "/"$1}'))"
> echo ".setpdfwrite <</NeverEmbed [$FONTS]>> setdistillerparams" > "$TEMPPSFILE"
> pdftops "$1" - >> "$TEMPPSFILE"
> gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o "${1%.pdf}-NOFONTS.pdf" -f "$TEMPPSFILE"
> rm "$TEMPPSFILE"
>
Thank you, Florian! The script failed to remove the font from this
particular pdf, however. I must say that I am impressed and I see that
you've combined quite a few tools there. If you feel like a challenge,
and don't mind Dotan taking advantage of that, then I could send to
you one of the pdf files to perfect your script on. I am certain that
there are many more people who would benefit from such a script, such
as these folks and others:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137062
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156016
Thanks.
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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